On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:41:25 +0100 (CET), Daniela Engert wrote:
>>I nearly forgot. PSDs are only available on UNI-kernels (at least lou told me so),
>so Warp 4 users wouldn't
be
>>able to use ACPI-PSD legally. I think that's bad. Is there no other way to implement
>certain functionality?
>My current plan is to implement a PSD which contains
>1) the Intel ACPI core architecture library
>2) the interrupt handler stuff required to support UNI/SMP IO-APICs and
>ACPI events
>3) most likely some device enumeration code to initialize devices still
>left untouched by the BIOS
3 should get done via GCONFIG. Are there special ACPI devices or do you mean PCI
devices?
>4) t.b.d.
>If the system is running on a W4 kernel some ACPI support by some other
>means is still possible but without taking advantage of IO-APICs.
>Handling ACPI events may be more difficult then.
>I won't put any efforts into supporting the non-PSD approach.
ok.
cu, Kiewitz
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